⛥ “Unlike the classical European, the Negro-African does not distinguish himself from the object, he does not hold it at a distance, he does not look at it, he does not analyse it. He touches it, he feels it, he smells it.” —Leopold Sedar
⛥ “I will tear the Banania smile off every wall in France.” —Leopold Sedar
⛥ “We are the men of the dance, whose feet regain strength by striking the hard ground.”—Leopold Sedar
⛥ “I dreamed of a world of sunshine in the brotherhood of my blue-eyed brothers.”
—Leopold Sedar
⛥ “Poetry must not perish. For then, where would be the hope of the World?”—Leopold Sedar
⛥ “I dreamed of a world of sunshine in the brotherhood of my blue-eyed brothers.”—Leopold Sedar
⛥ “To dance is to discover and recreate, especially when the dance is a dance of love. It is, in any case, the best mode of knowledge.”—Leopold Sedar
⛥ “I sing of your passing beauty, a form I fix in the Eternal, before jealous fate reduces you to ashes to nourish the roots of life.”—Leopold Sedar
⛥ “Deep in the well of my memory, I touch your face where I draw the water that refreshes my long regret.”—Leopold Sedar
⛥ “I say there is no armed peace, no peace under oppression. No brotherhood without equality. I wanted all men to be brothers.”—Leopold Sedar
⛥ “We do not inherit the land from our parents, we borrow it from our children.”—Leopold Sedar
⛥ “You have only to listen to God’s trombones, to your heart. Beating to the rhythm of blood, your blood.”—Leopold Sedar
⛥ “Racists are people with the wrong anger.”—Leopold Sedar
⛥ “Our new nobility is not to dominate our people, but to be their rhythm and their heart.”—Leopold Sedar
⛥ “To think and act by ourselves and for ourselves, as Negroes…, to access modernity without trampling on our authenticity.”—Leopold Sedar
⛥ “No one has the right to erase my culture, because a community without culture is a people without human beings.—Leopold Sedar
⛥ “No, you didn’t die for free. You are witnesses of the immortal Africa, you are witnesses of the new world that will be tomorrow.”—Leopold Sedar
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